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1. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Kahlo once said about Rivera, "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down. The other accident is Diego."

Indeed.

After Frida had a miscarriage, the womanizing Rivera cheated on the frail Kahlo with Frida's younger sister. And that was just the start. The two lost souls would break-up, get back together, make art inspired by the other, cheat on one another, break up some more, etc.

After Kahlo's premature death at age 47, Rivera would later realize that his best days were when he loved her. So freaking emo.

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